We had wished to see this movie when it was still in the theaters, but for very understandable reasons (all bad) the film was pulled, even though it was monetarily doing quite well. So, we thought it would be worth watching. It is a true story, and apparently the movie was careful to be as accurate to the historical details as possible.

Perhaps our first reaction was that the acting was not the best. This is understandable, as I’m sure it was hard to find actors willing to do this film. Contrariwise, the scene set-ups and cinematography were superb, and the action/story line was excellent.

The story is of the FBI and county detectives encountering each other in a search for the source of the physician who was writing massive quantities of narcotics. A raid on his office demonstrated a veritable house of horrors. The filth and stench of his office defied imagination, with fetal and infant body parts littering every portion of his three-story office and procedure clinic. Eventually, employees started talking of the abuses and crimes that were committed on a regular basis in the office.

A moderate amount of the movie centered around the court scene. The defending lawyer pleaded how rampant violations were necessary in order to best promote the “good”, that of making abortion easy and available to every girl in all stages of pregnancy. The prosecuting attornies insisted that the trial was not about abortion, but about the killing of babies in later stages of pregnancy or soon after birth. The prosecution prevailed, and Gosnell ultimately got life in prison without parole (which means 5-10 years in non-legal speak).

It’s what the movie did not say but suggested that makes the movie so powerful. 1. Yes, it is about abortion. 2. Yes, it is a real human being inside. 3. The slippery slope is speeding up. This movie came out approximately 6 months ago. Six months later, two states approved the murder of live-birth abortions. Multiple senators struck down a proposed law that would ban precisely the things that sent Gosnell to prison. 4. Moral relativism will ultimately lead to anything being moral, including the sacrifice of infants to Molech. Assuredly, Francis Crick of double helix fame will be proven correct that abortion will be legal up to age 2. And, why not? If the child is an inconvenience, why shouldn’t the mother have the right to terminate her little nuisance? One cannot possibly say that the trial of Gosnell was NOT about abortion. Political correctness is killing our nation as we refuse to speak openly and honestly about matters of deepest concern. Portrayed in this movie was the ivory tower of lies, the courtroom, the halls of where truth must be discarded and hope abandoned for the innocent. If this trial were to be held in 2019, Gosnell would have walked away with only misdemeanors for his office practices. It makes one weep.

It is a film that brought tears to my eyes, in that both the defense and prosecuting attornies refused to speak the honest truth about the horrors of abortion. The movie is an indictment on our nation, which will someday go down in history as committing crimes that make the Nazis appear like innocent school children. It is a moving film, very much worth watching.